Here are a few reads that I enjoyed this year on a variety of topics (tech, business, environment, society, etc) including articles, blog posts and longer more in-depth reads. Hope you’ll find them interesting too!
Tech & Business
Why Tens of Thousands of Tech Employees Are Being Laid Off: This article is from Full Stack Economics , a newsletter about the economy, technology, and public policy. The last…
The Cleanse - AVC: I've never done a cleanse. But many of my friends and family members have done them. There are various flavors of…
The personal year end review: 2022 Edition: Each year for the last six years, I have taken a personal offsite. I have moved to a different physical location in…
Environment
This Hot Summer Is One of the Coolest of the Rest of Our Lives: Extreme heat was a constant in the news last summer: In July a punishing heat wave in Europe pushed temperatures across…
A Guide to Getting Rid of Almost Everything: TIP No. 3: If you want to give away an assortment of things online, stipulate that the winner takes all. Otherwise…
Science
Two Weeks In, the Webb Space Telescope Is Reshaping Astronomy | Quanta Magazine: We care about your data, and we'd like to use cookies to give you a smooth browsing experience. Please agree and read…
The Pandemic's Legacy Is Already Clear: Recently, after a week in which 2,789 Americans died of COVID-19, President Joe Biden proclaimed that "the pandemic is…
Society
How to Want Less: The secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff. I glanced into my teenage daughter's…
The Time Hack Everyone Should Know: Much like Dorothy discovers at the end of "The Wizard of Oz," the key to hacking time is a tool we've had all along…
Your attention didn't collapse. It was stolen: hen he was nine years old, my godson Adam developed a brief but freakishly intense obsession with Elvis Presley. He…
Are You the Same Person You Used to Be?: Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you're like isn't who you are. I…
World affairs
How Ukraine Is Crowdsourcing Digital Evidence of War Crimes: It's a systematic effort unlike any in the history of modern warfare, experts say